@Newyorkrita you plant your tomatoes before the last frost date & Nestle them in with leaves for protection. This works?
I have always waited. Our last frost date is near Memorial Day, so it is quite a wait. Maybe I will try planting one or two earlier. Just harden them off really well?
Last year I got a tomato planting tip from a fellow in the Netherlands. I tried it & those tomatoes outperformed the ones I had planted in the regular way. ,(I did a test comparison). He takes all the leaves off his tomato transplants except for a little tuft at the top. He then plants them horizontally with the root ball slightly lower and covers with compost. He then buries 2\3rds deep a 2 litre bottle head down with the bottom cut off next to the root ball. He fills the 2 litre bottle with water or manure tea or tea from comfrey booking 14. I don't have any comfrey booking plants so I just used manure tea. The bottle obviously delivers moisture directly to the root ball.
I plan on planting all mine this way this year. Can I interest you in trying it with one plant? Or anyone else?
